I am an Assistant Professor of Business, Government and Society and (by courtesy) of Economics at The University of Texas at Austin. My research applies insights and methods from industrial organization and public economics to the study of environmental, energy, and climate policy. [ CV ]
Working papers
Learning-by-doing Spillovers and Industrial Policy: Evidence from Residential Solar Installation
Private Benefits from Public Investment in Climate Adaptation and Resilience (with Joseph E. Aldy)
Complementarities and Optimal Targeting of Technology Subsidies (with Frank Pinter)
Publications
Hotelling Meets Wright: Spatial Sorting and Measurement Error in Recreation Demand Models
Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2025
Voluntary Purchases and Adverse Selection in the Market for Flood Insurance (with Carolyn Kousky and Oliver Wing)
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2021
Analysis of Proposed 20-year Mineral Leasing Withdrawal in Superior National Forest (with James H. Stock)
Ecological Economics, 2022
'Underwaterwriting:' From Theory to Empiricism in Regional Mortgage Markets in the US (with Jesse M. Keenan)
Climatic Change, 2020
Comparing the Effects of Behaviorally Informed Interventions on Flood Insurance Demand: An Experimental Analysis of 'Boosts' and 'Nudges'
Behavioural Public Policy, 2019
Work in progress
Fraud and Enforcement in Vehicle Emissions Inspections (with Jackson Dorsey)
Vertical Contracting in Retail Gasoline (with Jackson Dorsey and Reid Taylor)
Welfare Effects of Retail Pricing Behavior in Natural Disasters (with Jackson Dorsey)
Clearing the Air: The Welfare Effects of the Clean Air Act's Regional Haze Rule
Teaching
The University of Texas
BGS/IB 372T: Global Net Zero Strategy (undergraduate), 2025-Present
IB 395: Global Net Zero Strategy (MBA/graduate), 2025-Present
GOV 312L: Issues and Policies in American Government, 2026-Present
Harvard University
ECON 1661: Economics of Climate Change and Environmental Policy, Spring 2021, Spring 2022
ECON 1420: American Economic Policy, Fall 2020, Fall 2021
Public Policy, Health Policy, and Business Administration PhD Math Camp Instructor, Summer 2022 [Slides: Constrained Optimization; Comparative Statics and Linear Algebra; Probability and Statistics]
HKS Exec Ed: Climate Change Policy, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021